Heather Hansman

How Does the Outdoor Community Stay Inspired During Social Distancing?

Heather Hansman|April 14, 2020

Editor’s note: After a great deal of careful consideration, we temporarily closed our retail stores nationwide. For more information, review the FAQs regarding ...

Op-Ed: What an Indoor Ski Area in a Mall in New Jersey Could Mean for Skiing

Heather Hansman|February 27, 2020

This op-ed represents the opinions of Heather Hansman. I’m not a fiction writer, but if I were to write a novel about the dystopian future I might set it in ...

Six Cool Jobs You Can Do in a Ski Town

Heather Hansman|November 21, 2019

So, you want to make it work in a ski town? You know about the classic first-year liftie jobs at the ski hill and the constant cliché about the mountain-town ba...

Arapahoe Basin: The Coolest Ski Area You Haven’t Been to Yet

Heather Hansman|September 4, 2019

OK, it’s not really a secret. You can basically spit on Denver from the top of Arapahoe Basin’s East Wall, and the mountain is typically one of the country’s fi...

Yes, You Need Technical Underwear. Here’s Why.

Heather Hansman|August 27, 2019

Three miles into a humid, 11-mile run—just far enough that it was silly to turn back—I started to have regrets. They had been riding up the whole time, but as I...

Heather Anderson walks with a heavy pack across a bald mountain with stormy skies in the distance

Inside the Mind of Heather ‘Anish’ Anderson

Heather Hansman|May 30, 2019

“Well, here goes,” she wrote in the trail register at the southern terminus of the Pacific Crest Trail. She second-guessed her vagueness, and her modesty. “To C...

Put Silverton Mountain On Your Bucket List

Heather Hansman|December 4, 2018

In early October, ski patrollers at Colorado’s rugged Silverton Mountain were already making powder turns. By November, the mountain had seen 246 percent of ave...

Kate Courtney’s Path to World Cup Victory

Heather Hansman|October 25, 2018

Kate Courtney says she just has a particularly high level of grit. That may be true, but it takes more than grit to top the podium. She won the women’s UCI M...

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